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It truly amazes me how gross my refrigerator can get in such a short amount of time. Drips all over the interior. Leftovers pushed back into the great unknown and moisture builds up on the shelves. It’s no wonder the kids stand in front of it with the door open, and proclaim, “WE DON’T HAVE […]

Are you planning to move? Your residence could be moving across the street, to another country, or somewhere in between. Moving from one home to another is a ton of work, no matter the distance. I’ve moved multiple times in my life so I’ve learned some valuable lessons along the way. Today I want to […]

Are you trying to figure out how to START decluttering? Do you need to simplify your home, but your life is crazy busy? Then this Decluttering Challenge is for you! I challenged the Simplify Your Stuff group to spend the remaining days of the month focused on decluttering in short burst. But, after thinking about […]

So you want to know how to do Spring Cleaning effectively and efficiently? You want to Spring Clean your entire house in 1 weekend? Well, guess what? It is possible! You can Spring Clean your entire house in a weekend! However, when it comes to Spring Cleaning your home quickly, you need to be prepared and have a plan. […]

Figuring out how or organize school papers is an important task to tackle when your kids start school. If you don’t have an action plan right now, then it’s important to put together a game plan to store these keepsakes. It doesn’t matter if it’s the beginning of the school year, the end of the school year, or […]

I’m thoroughly convinced that one reason so many of us have a closet full of clothes we don’t love to wear, is that we shop aimlessly. We buy things JUST because they are on sale. Or JUST because an item is on the new trend list. The problem with that purposeless shopping is we don’t take […]

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I know what you mean! I do this every few months in my closet as well as lil man’s. The problem I have is with step #4. I have tons of bags of old clothes in the floor of my closet waiting to be picked up and donated! But I always forget to get them into my car. FAIL!

I am a stuff-hater. But yet, somehow, we STILL. manage to collect lots of it around here. I’m ready to go on another rampage. This post is great. Reminds me of Flylady.net, which I used to frequent. The timer is the key!

Hi! I love your articles – I wonder if you might offer me some advice.
My husband likes to collect paper. Receipts, statements, church programs, sentimental papers – you name it! They seem to be everywhere. His night stand in our bedroom contains receipts, church booklets, checkbooks, (perhaps his diploma or birth certificate), calculator, mints, shoelaces, and more. In addition, our coffee tables and side tables for the living room have drawers, of which he has stowed tax documents, landscaping estimates, investment documents, etc.

I worry about bringing more “drawered” items in to our home as they get filled with misc. I have fallen in to the rut myself, a little bit 🙁 I am not sure how to help him find approproiate homes for these items? I did buy a photo-box that he can keep under the bed to throw in receipts, but I don’t think he’s using it.

Well, I can say that I’m naturally very much like him! It’s a real problem sometimes…ha!

Do you have a filing cabinet? Until I had a very large filing cabinet I didn’t really feel like anything had a home. It can take a loooong time to get it organized, but if you start with one drawer, clean it out and file, shred, trash everything in there, it’s a great place to start.

As far as receipts, there are a few options. 1. Not sure what it’s called….but a stick thingy that you place every single receipt on helps. Or, you could scan them all. There’s even some online storage places (shoeboxed.com) where you mail in the receipts and they scan and organize them all.

Anything that’s extremely valuable like a birth certificate, passport, etc. should probably go somewhere more secure like a lock box at the bank or a safe. His diploma could maybe go on the wall to show it off 🙂

I’m still working on all of this myself so I’m certainly not an expert. Hopefully some of the suggestions will help though!

I also forgot to mention…. we have an office filing cabinet as well – which he has kept some financial documents and college information ( he graduated 6 years ago). I have allowed him 3 large plastic bins in our storage room for his excess papers he needs to keep or sentimental items – so I’m not trying to remove his stuff completely! I just don’t know how to properly streamline the items in the drawers 🙁 Help!